Insights

Increasing communication among monetary authorities could do much to curb volatility in global financial markets, having an impact on capital flows to emerging markets.

In this week's essential reading guide, Kohler predicts tough economic times, Gottliebsen weighs up China's risks and Bartholomeusz envisages disaster for small iron ore miners.

The RBA board meeting minutes will be in focus, while in the US all eyes will be on the Federal Open Market Committee's decision on bond purchases.

Stephen Bartholomeusz explains how the local resource industry is influencing Australia's exchange rate.

Tax reform will consume a lot of political capital, but the cost of inaction could be even more damaging.

Yet again we are greeted with a newspaper headline telling us too much power supply will mean not enough power supply ... so the government has to cut the RET. What a load of illogical nonsense.

After more than six decades of conflict over the political status of Taiwan, Beijing and Taipei are taking significant steps toward rapprochement in their relations.

Christopher Pyne is trying to use the example of China's higher education reforms to spur on his push for reform in Australia, but has he learned the right lessons from their experience?

The RBA's jawboning failed to move the stubbornly high dollar, but conditions in the US appear to be having a bigger impact.

The Clean Energy Council issued a statement yesterday telling Ian Macfarlane they're not interested in volunteering themselves to be sacrificed. It reflects a belief that while the government talks tough, they are in fact weak and vulnerable on the RET.

Apple Watch is finally here and while it may not have entirely lived up to the hype, it will still have Google looking over its shoulder.

Labour market slack will provide the Federal Reserve with some indication of when to raise rates, but it must also keep an eye on the vulnerabilities developing in some parts of the financial system.

Trade sanctions appear to have done little to dent China's dominance over the solar crystalline silicon production chain, with the country still dominating each production step.

Adam Creighton looks behind numbers of this months massive job rise.

It's crunch time for the nation's premier information technology research institution and it's far from certain what the organisation will look like in two years, or whether it will still exist.

The EIA's recently released energy outlook shows that despite a decline in some regions, Asia's developing economies will ensure global oil consumption continues to rise.